Manifestos/Positions

Below we’ve gathered a collection of fiery, disputatious articles touching on different aspects of the cinematic experience: rants, screeds, opinionated musings, declarations of allegiance and resistance. These writers take up the joys and pitfalls of online criticism, Internet cinephilia, digital reproducibility, and the uses and misuses of cinema itself, often in unpredictable ways.

The formidable New York Times critic finds reasons to be circumspect about the new cinephilia of small screens and digital media in this 2005 article. But she says it’s still too early to determine what’s lost or gained.